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I did a little maintenance on this site today. A few of my new students asked if my posts from the spring term would help them on their fall 2007 assignments.

My answer: “not really”. I tend to change my assignments around each term to keep the content current, and to include suggestions from students in my previous courses.

I’ll continue posting suggestions during the current term, but I’ve restricted access to many of most of these old posts to keep the confusion to a minimum. Students usually don’t get access to a previous semester’s discussions in WebCT, after all.

As I reviewed my blog, I counted 57 posts that were specific to the spring term and no longer relevant.

In some of these posts, I had published suggestions or guidance that was specific to an assignment. Of course, I’ll keep doing this during the current semester.
In some cases, these posts were progress reports on my grading. Those progress reports aren’t relevant for my current courses.

A few of the posts were agenda’s for a face-to-face section I taught last term. Both of my sections are online this term.

I didn’t want to delete these old posts, however. Every now and then, I show colleagues what I’ve been doing in my course.

So, if you’re a student who’s searching through the site for information about my spring 2007 courses, you might encounter article titles that look like this screen shot: